dinsdag 28 januari 2014

AquaScaping

Aquascaping is underwater gardening in your fishtank, this can be done in many styles.
The style of which I'm a fan is the one to create landscapes that you normally find above the water.
Some people are really good at it, as you can see on this website .

Since I wanna do something new with my tank,
I decided to give it a try myself.

I want to start with a simple type of landscape,
so I picked "Chocolate hills" those can be seen on the island Bohol in the Philippines.

It's a fun looking landscape, and it matches with my asian fresh water fish.

So I bought some stuff and plants to get started, and now I'm hoping it can be put in the tank within weeks.



I bought some stone hiding places, and coconuts, to get the right color and effect I'm going to put java moss on top.

To make this work I only needed some fishline and a scissors.




Since the hills are not all the same size I needed
different sizes for my tank as well.

So I use the stone hiding places for the bigger hills,
and the coconuts for the lower ones.

I will start with just making 3 hills, to see if my idea will work.

At the picture on the right you can see how I attached the moss to the stone.



After that I used the remaining moss to cover some parts of the other hills.



It is not that much at the moment but the moss will grow and start to cover the rest.




If I put the hills straight away in my tank, the moss will be quickly in my filter because of my fishes.

So I put the hills in a small spare tank, so the moss can stick itself firmly to the hills. When I think the hills are covered enough I will move the hills to my main tank.

For now I can only wait untill the moss starts doing it's job.

The comming weeks and months I will try to update the progress that I make.